Make Your Own Pizza Kit

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Make Your Own Pizza Kit, Advanced Edition Why do you love ordering pizza so much? You are perfectly capable of making it yourself and you know it, yet you still choose to order it instead of create it. Do you need instructions? Are you afraid it won 't turn out well? Well put your worries behind you because you are just ten simple steps away from making a delicious homemade pizza that rivals the best that you could buy from a restaurant. The first step to start creating your own delicious homemade pizza is pretty straight forward, determine what type of pizza you want to make. There are virtually an infinite number of different combinations of ingredients that can be used to make a custom pizza, so it is important to decide what you want …show more content…

Some of the key items that all pizzas should have include cheese, sauce and dough. Here you have to choose whether to use store bought sauce and dough, or to make your own. Making your own sauce and dough will of course will take longer and require more effort, but if done correctly, will make the pizza taste better. If you decide to make your own, your list of ingredients should include what is required to make the sauce and dough. There are many recipes to make pizza sauce and dough but the ones from FoodNetwork.com are very good. The dough requires bread flour (Whole grain bread flour if you are making whole grain crust); sugar; one packet of instant dry yeast; salt; water; and olive oil. …show more content…

You can now remove it from the bowl and put it back on the counter. Flatten the dough out and let it sit for a few minutes. Then flatten the dough out some more and begin shaping it based on the pan that you are using. You can use a rolling pin if you have one, but your hands work just fine. Now transfer the dough to the pan and continue flattening and shaping. For normal crust, you want to dough to mostly fill the pan, and for stuffed crust, stretch the dough out over the edges of the pan slightly. If you are stuffing the crust, add the stuffing now. Put the ingredient you wish to put in the crust around the perimeter of the pizza and fold the extra dough over it towards the center. The outer edge of the pizza should now be just inside the pan. It is now time to add the sauce. Take the saucepan and pour the sauce directly onto the center of the dough. Use the back of the wooden spoon to spread the sauce around. You want an even coating of sauce on the entire pizza, excluding the crust of course. Once you are happy with the way the sauce is spread you can add your choice of cheese. It is a matter of preference how much cheese you use, but generally enough to almost completely hide the sauce is a good amount. You are now almost ready to cook your pizza, you just need to add your choice of

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